The Game Screen

The Phantasia Reimagined client displays a window broken into many parts.

Player Status - This player status provides all the information about the status of the characters. To make things easier, we'll discuss each side at a time.

The left side of the player status frame shows your characters energy, strength and speed stats. The percent of each compared to the maximum is displayed with a color bar, starting at green when at 100% and slowing turning to red at 20%. The actual number is displayed in the center of the bar.

To the left of each bar is equipment that modifies the stat: shield, sword and quicksilver. This equipment's adjustment is already incorporated into the bar. Each plus with this equipment adds directly to the character's stat.

The top of the right side provides character location information. Included is the character name, the name of the location and the coordinates of the character's present location.

Below this are pictures and values describing a character's more important stats. Here's a quick rundown of what the pictures mean.

- Mana

- Character Level

- Gold

- Gems

/ - Cloak

/ - Blessing

/ - Staff or Crown

/ - Palantir

/ - Ring

/ - Virgin

The action buttons are used for most of the decisions in Phantasia Reimagined, so you'll be pushing them a lot. To make things easier, the numbers 1-8 on your keyboard can be used in place of are aliases for any of these buttons as long as the cursor is not in the input field in the chat area. The function keys will do the same thing and will work in the chat input field. You can also use the space bar to hit the left-most active button. These keyboard shortcuts are un-available in the 1.02 Java client.

The list of players on the right will tell you who is currently playing and give some basic information about them. A letter is used to designate the character race and a second may be used for characters that have attained special ranks. Race designations are M, F, E, D, H and X for Magic-User, Fighter, Elf, Dwarf, Halfling and Experimento. Rank designations are N, S, K, Q, C, V, X and W for kNight, Steward, King, Queen, Council of the Wise, Valar, Ex-Valar and Game Wizard.

The number to the right of these designations indicate the channel a character is in. Players can only hear and speak to other players who are in the same channel. Players start on channel 1, the newbie channel, but have the option to change this under the "Info" menu available while playing. Profanity is not permitted on channel 1 and speaking privileges may be taken away if this is abused.

On wide screens the browser game has three columns: the story and your buttons, travel and gear, and the other adventurers with a full-height chat. On narrower screens the chat sits under travel and gear, and on phones everything stacks.

Colours in the log and chat

In the browser game the log is colour-coded: bold red when a monster attacks you, red for damage you take, orange for blows you land, teal for healing, green for gold, gems, gear and experience, blue for travel and the state of the realm, and gold for big announcements. Gear is shown in its tier's colour wherever it is named, as in the gear panel (grey Worn, cream Common, green Fine, blue Masterwork, purple Enchanted, gold artifacts), and a shop's buttons match the items they buy. In chat, each player's name has its own colour, messages that mention you are highlighted, and the game's answers to your commands are shown in grey italics.

Arrange your buttons

In the browser client you can put the eight action buttons wherever suits your play style. Click Arrange buttons above them, tap a button, then tap the place it should go (an empty place works too). Click Done when you're finished.